Quotes About Existence

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Before him exist neither question nor answer.

We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.

In reality, the source of all these differences is, that the savage lives within himself, while the social man lives constantly outside himself, and only knows how to live in the opinion of others, so that he seems to receive the consciousness of his own existence merely from the judgment of others concerning him. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

I've always thought that as long as there were books left to read, life would always be worth living.

Christopher didn't understand that there was a fine line between seeking death and being indifferent to its occurrence.

You can't know that. I may not believe in God, but I've come to believe that there is a pattern. A pattern that works itself out in ways we can't begin to understand.

We like to believe the world arcs towards justice--I suppose because it reassures us and makes us think there's some sort of order to our existence. but what if we're wrong? What if it's All meaningless chaos and chance?

If I discover within myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation

There are moments that define our existence, moments that, if we recognize them, become pivotal turning points in our life.

Hay momento que definen nuestra existencia, momentos que, si los reconocemos, suponen un giro definitivo en nuestra vida. Como perlas en un hilo, la acumulación de tales momentos, con el tiempo, constituyen la esencia de nuestra existencia, proporcionándonos consuelo cuando nuestro fin se acerca.

Beauty is fleeting. We must enjoy what we have before time steals it away.

I never much cared for religion. I don't think God does, either.

If only one existence listens to it and takes it into consideration, then you don't even have to tell the truth. In telling other things, you will invariably tell the truth as well, even if you or the truth wish otherwise.

The most difficult problem is not that of wanting to learn. It is time. With enough time you might learn to listen and to walk. And with enough time I would listen to you, and walk your way without undoing mine. With sufficient time everything will again belong to everybody. We will be able to exist in our life, and at the same time in the life of all persons who were once things, and in the life of things that later are to be persons.

The whole world is a man's birthplace.

Cada um sabe a dor e a delícia de ser o que é...

Você fica pesando as médias que faz todos os dias, para poder sobreviver. O saldo é meio amargo.

quero que daqui pra frente a vida seja hoje. A vida não é adiável.

if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative. Not only will this preserve your ability to resist distraction and concentrate, but you might even fulfill Arnold Bennett's ambitious goal of experiencing, perhaps for the first time, what it means to live, and not just exist. Rule

There are many ways to portray this change. I think the social critic Laurence Scott does so quite effectively when he describes the modern hyper-connected existence as one in which "a moment can feel strangely flat if it exists solely in itself.

el crítico social Laurence Scott acierta de pleno cuando describe la existencia moderna hiperconectada como una existencia en la que "un momento puede resultar extrañamente monótono si existe únicamente en sí mismo.